Wyre Forest (district)

Wyre Forest District
Wyre Forest Shown within Worcestershire
Geography
Status:	Non-metropolitan district
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Worcestershire
Area: - Total	Ranked 191st 195.41 km²
Admin. HQ:	Stourport-on-Severn
ONS code:	47UG
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	98.2% White
Politics
Wyre Forest District Council http://www.wyreforestdc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Richard Taylor, Bill Wiggin

For the woodland in Shropshire and Worcestershire, see Wyre Forest - for the district in Lancashire, see Wyre

Wyre Forest is a local government district in Worcestershire, England, covering the towns of Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley. Its council is based in Stourport-on-Severn.

The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1972, on April 1, 1974, as a merger of Bewdley and Kidderminster municipal boroughs, Stourport-on-Severn Urban District Council and Kidderminster Rural District Council.

The Wyre Forest parliamentary constituency, which covers most of the district, is represented by the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern MP Dr Richard Taylor. His party was briefly the dominant party, but by May 2005 election had been reduced to the second largest party with 9 councillors.

Parishes in Wyre Forest District

Kidderminster is unparished.
*Areley Kings
*Bewdley
*Broome
*Chaddesley Corbett
*Churchill and Blakedown
*Kidderminster Foreign
*Ribbesford
*Rock
*Rushock
*Stone
*Stourport-on-Severn
*Upper Arley
*Wilden
*Wolverley and Cookley